Getting your Safety Architecture just right

Introduction In a recent industry survey, roughly 40% of ASIC and FPGA project starts had functional safety part of their…

The configurability dilemma creating safe ICs

A traditional automobile today consists of multiple systems controlling everything from the interior atmosphere to drive train to more advanced…

The importance of effective Safety Analysis

In the recent Wilson research industry survey, semiconductor companies reporting have made it clear that functional safety activities consume a…

Part 7: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

IC/ASIC Design Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2020 Wilson Research Group…

Leveraging ISO 26262 tool certification in IEC 61508

The majority of safety critical standards contain a section discussing the activities and analysis required to ensure tools deployed in…

The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament

The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament

The title may have you wondering how the heck I’m going to tie together two very disparate topics.  Well here…

Colliding Worlds in Safety Analysis

Colliding Worlds in Safety Analysis

Traditionally failure mode identification has been an expert driven exercise with a failure mode commonly written in common language, such…

Navigating the Road to Functional Safety

Navigating the Road to Functional Safety

One example of increasing requirements that are contributing to growing electronic system complexity relates to safety-critical designs, such as ISO…

Automotive IC Design Workshop

Automotive IC Design Workshop

Join us Thursday, November 21, 2019 at our offices in Fremont, CA for the Mentor and TowerJazz Automotive Workshop. Register…